Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-09-01
ASBURY PARK NOTES.
A Place with Wide Streets, Where One
May BE Happy.
Especial Correspondence ]

Especial Correspondence
AsBURY PARK, Aug. 15.-I wish L could
give you an idea of Asbury Park. Its streets
are wide and clean, and lined with pretty
balconied and vine embowered cottages and
hotels, nearly all bearing attractive names,
and with little lawns and terraces erased
and flowered like gardens of the gods. At
night they are lighted up outside and in, and
from their balconies come the sounds of
laughter and music, while a procession of
beauty and bravery passes by on the side
walk. 1t isa summer city, truly, for its peo-
pie have forgotten their cares; they have put
aside their work; they have withdrawn from
the absorbing business of life for time; they
are here for rest.
In the evening everybody goes down to the
beach There is a wide board walk extending
all the way across the east side of Ocean
Grove on the south, all along the edge of the
park, and away up toward Long Branch, l
know not how far. "The Branch" as they
call it here. is only two miles to the north.
You can 90 up on a stage for twenty-five
cents. forenoon or afternoon. Electric lights
flash along the beach walk and so do bright
ewes. Sand soft eyes look love to eyes which
speak again" A famous place for Cupid is
that board walk. You can see him, busy as
a bee, flying around shooting his fatal ar
rows. There are covered pavilions and
benches strewn all along the walk where the
meditative may rest and commune with the
ocean and themselves And there is band
which PLAYS music of an unexceptional moral
coloring. No circus barum, barum, baree,
is ever heard here, thank you. And taber-
nacles, educational halls and libraries
rhnrpb--avv
denomination you please-and goin and hear
the best of preaching without money and
without price. Pretty, cool little groves Of
scrub pine are numerous here. They take
away the dreary look which most seaside re-
sorts have, and give rural air to the place.
A big, solid flagstaff is planted on the
beach. On Sunday it floats flag, bearing
the motto: "Peace on earth, good viii to
men, The sentiment Of the entire place is
good will to men. They are so scarce an ar
ticle here that from the ladies they get more
than their share Of good will. Small boys
become beaux at once. Broken down swells
grow young again basking in the extrava-
CANT adulation which is theirs simply because
more agreeable men are not numerous. In a
house know there is only one man at great
long table we'll filled with fair women. He is
tolerably deaf, bald headed, and has lost an
eve, bat is, in spite Of these drawbacks, a
great beau The woman who owns him is
very uneasy. heard her say she didn't
think the air agreed with her here
Nice, plain, old people are here, husbands
and wives. They are here, not to be splendid,
not to ape the manners and follies of the
people of younger generation, but to enjoy
the rest earned by a lifetime of toll.
Male bathers are very fond of showing OF.
When they have any confidence at all in
themselves, they splurge around as though
the ocean was the merest frog pond in their
ewes and had no terrors for them. And they
all keep their weather eye turned toward the
sand for admiring glances. As a general
thing the brave creatures do not believe in
hiding their accomplishments under busheL
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